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Yitzhak Rabin in 1985, then defense minister

Rabin's strength brings hope to Israel on assassination anniversary

By shay gal
The fifth annual Employers Conference, organized by the Lauder Center in collaboration with JNF USA and the Manufacturers Association of Israel Southern District.

Rising above the chaos: Southern industry leaders fuel Negev’s economic revival

 President Chaim Weizmann

'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography': A revealing look at the life of Israel's first president

 THEN-FOREIGN MINISTER Shimon Peres and then-PA head Yasser Arafat clasp hands at a Euro-Mediterranean meeting, in Majorca, Spain, in 2001. Peres envisioned a Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli economic arrangement, the writer notes.

Israel must give up managing the conflict and choose winning it

 T’S TIME for a new Israeli paradigm. Jewish farmers on their way to work in the fields in Palestine, 1939.

Editors Notes: A new generation of pioneers will redefine Israel

ISRAEL’S FIRST prime minister, David Ben-Gurion

Would Israel’s founders approve of modern Zionism?

By ALIZA PILICHOWSKI
Israeli flag.

We can operationalize the dream of unity into a reality

 David Ben-Gurion – Israeli politician, Zionist leader, First Prime Minister of israel.

How Ben-Gurion's pragmatic decision led to haredim draft exemption

By ELI ASHKENAZI
 Yael Dayan

Former MK Yael Dayan passes away at the age of 85

By ELI ASHKENAZI
 (L-R) Hồ Chí Minh in Paris, 1946; Portrait of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 1949

A tale of two leaders: The Paris meetings between Ben-Gurion and Ho Chi Minh

Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU) CEO Doug Seserman (pictured fourth from left) during a recent leadership solidarity mission to Israel with Ben-Gurion University President Prof. Daniel Chamowitz (pictured fifth from left)

In the aftermath of Oct. 7, Ben-Gurion University doubles down on its mission

 Dr. Esther Luzzatto

From Ben-Gurion to Ben-Gvir: The face of Israel 2024 - Opinion

By Dr. Esther Luzzatto
 A man and a boy walk past Israeli flags over a field of wildflowers blooming at the site of the Nova festival where people were killed and kidnapped during the October 7 attack by Hamas gunmen from Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Reim, sou

In search of statesmanship and rallying towards a unified vision

 SAMER TALALKA is laid to rest in the Bedouin town of Hura in the Negev, on Saturday

Israel maintains moral clarity amid smog of Gaza war on Jihad

 A statue depicting Israel's first prime minister David Ben Gurion that was set on fire by unknown people on the beach in Tel Aviv, September 16, 2023

Israeli arrested for torching statue of David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv

 David Ben-Gurion publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948, beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism, in the old Tel Aviv Museum of Art building on Rothschild Street.

What is the origin story of Israel's Declaration of Independence?

By SHLOMO MAITAL
 ARTWORK OF pupils attending London’s Eden Primary School, inspired by Israeli graphic design artist Dan Reisinger’s ‘Industree.’

New children's exhibit marks 75 years of Israel

By ANAV SILVERMAN PERETZ
 THE KNESSET plenum in session: When Israeli leaders are entrusted with power by the nation’s citizens, they must make sure they don’t practice the tyranny of the majority, says the writer.

How the founders of Israel handled the responsibilities of power - opinion